Unfortunately, dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, unfortunately, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

Atheism is the philosophical equivalent of a fish denying the existence of land because he lacks the means to experience it.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

Peace will come to the world when the people have enough noodles to eat.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.