When you're appealing to people's fears and anxieties, you can make some gains.

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

Inside, my spirit is sparkling like foam on the crest of a wave at high tide under a full moon.

But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

A thing well done is worth doing.

I'd tell him, though. Soon. Soonish. Eventually.

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.