The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems.

We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.