"There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage."

"You really can change the world if you care enough."

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."

"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."

"The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever."

"It is a radiant truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow."

"The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in."

"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority."