The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

There's an art in every labour.

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?