The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

The public is very fickle as I was saying to my cabdriver Gerald Ford.

Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.

We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems