Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

God chose to save you for a purpose

A person is neither right or wrong-- there is only a right attitude and a right interaction.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

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Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Stories are medicine.

Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.