When you win, you can afford to be gracious, you can afford to have a little more mercy.

My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.

I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

My role is to remind people that everyday people can make a difference. And if we get people out there doing things to make America a better place, we can bring change.

What happens to one directly happens to all indirectly.

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.

I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what my future holds.

If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.

Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.