The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Hope is confidence.

When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.

Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness.

You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.