Our Quotes
We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.
I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.
This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.
We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.
We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.
Trump is not somebody who's fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply frustrated, not because anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country.
By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come.
We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.
May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.
while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there.
some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.
If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.
That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.
But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"
Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!
True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.
The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.