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.

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

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.

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

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.

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

Positive thinking and negative thinking cannot operate at the same level in your mind, one needs to be the master and the one you feed it more will rule over the other.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

The thought, the deadly thought of solitude.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.