If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

Be present - and see what a difference it makes in your lives and in the world.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

Don't tell me words don't matter.

It's a free country. I wish it weren't.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

The smile of a child is the inspiration for the future.

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

When I am in London, I think my favourite city is London, but when I am in New York, I feel it is New York. It is very hard to choose between the two.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.