I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

What is false about hope?

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

The flaw is the thing we love.

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!