So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.