When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.

No matter what happens to you, if you have life, with faith and hope, you will live to see your situation change.

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.