Our Quotes

Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.