Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.