I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

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.

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!)and I watched him as he took and took:none of it I could claim as mine.

If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress.

Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.

Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.