"I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me."

"Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else."

"Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be."

"There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves."

"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."

"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that the silence between the notes creates the music."