I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Nadia Boulanger

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

William Shakespeare

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Al Gore

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

Benjamin Disraeli

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Noam Chomsky

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

Jacques Derrida

Things are only impossible until they are not.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

What wise or stupid thing can man conceive That was not thought of in ages long ago?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When in doubt, mumble when in trouble, delegate when in charge, ponder.

James H. Boren

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

Carol Ann Duffy

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

Steve Maraboli