We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

I didn’t know that the times we spent together on the weekends, the times that we laughed together, and the times you helped me out was your way of silently wishing me a beautiful goodbye.

Gage sighed. "This team was a whole hell of a lot easier to run before any of us had ever heard about The One. You know that, right?" Maybe." Becker grinned. "But it wasn't nearly as interesting.

Even if I never get to see the light of heaven, it will still be worth my sacrifice as long as I save you.

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Freedom is always wise.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

Don't confuse brains with a bull market.

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower.

I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.