The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Indeed, this crisis was also spurred by the abandonment of professional ideals in the pursuit of profit that made managed care necessary in the first place.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

He who gives love, receives love.

I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.