The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

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.

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

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.

Love. It doesn't change for any person to any person. It evolves.

Abundance comes from giving not from receiving.

The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity.

All things are full of gods.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

I still like weird music but there's such an overabundance that it's hard for me to stay enthusiastic about it.

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.