I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

Be broken and pride will have no vessel.

whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

When I was deciding to fight, the thought of winning or losing didn't bother me.