"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."

"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

"War settles nothing."

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

"At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone."

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."