Have faith in yourself and in the future.

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.