There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

The absence of fear is love.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.

So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second

Love is all around us

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

Off the field I'm down to earth. I'm a very caring person. I'm a very giving person.

No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.