We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.

Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.