I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

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.

Be careful. He uses that line on all the girls.

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.

You have to understand the vehicle, the form that allows you to do what you do, and why that is.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.