In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
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.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work by exercising to stimulate circulation; others meditate to quiet the chatter of the outer world.
Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!
You can't win them all but you can try.