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

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.

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

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe

I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.

If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

I feel the only way I'm going to be successful in moving on is if I keep a separation.

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.