I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

The absence of fear is love.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.

So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

I Can’t Be With Her, But it Ain’t Stopping Me From Loving Her

How you react to a situation says more about you than you know.

Meaning can be found in action.

don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom, but think of combating the forces of lust.

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house?

First sentences are doors to worlds.