Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present