I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me.

Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.