I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I raised four kids in six years.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.

India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.

Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

The Lord 'hath set His tabernacle in the sun,' says the Psalmist. The sun is Mary's heart.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.