I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.

A man with no imagination can never inspire others.

Don’t worry, ” I said. “We won’t be having slumber parties and spa days any time soon.” “I quite like spa days.

Men learn while they teach.

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.

The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.