The fact that our country, the greatest country in the world, remains mired in race relations issues in the year 2014 is an embarrassment.

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.

I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.

As far as I am concerned, the Ulster Grand Prix is my favourite race.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

I like the danger, I like the adrenaline and I need it to race.

Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

Frying is essentially a drying process. Batters and breadings are formulated to dry out in a particularly graceful way.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

When you race a sailboat, the selection of your crew is just completely paramount. It's impossible to be an effective skipper if you don't have the right people working harmoniously in the right roles.

With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

The 1979 Daytona 500 was awesome. It was almost like the first race that Ken Squier ever did. And so he was sort of introducing himself as well as the sport.

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

As a kid, you're like, 'Do they have Preakness everywhere or just in Maryland?' You hear people talking about it, and it was like, 'Oh, everyone goes there to hang out and party.' I didn't even know it was a race until I got older.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.