I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.

Leaders' major question is "why". If they lose, they ask "why". If they win, they ask "why". Their "whys" weave their wonders.

If death is necessity life is a choice

Having a weakness is nothing to be ashamed of. If anything~ knowing what your weakness is makes you very powerful indeed.

You young people are syphoning the anointing out of me. Syphoning it.

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.