Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. 

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. 

World belongs to humanity, not the leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.