I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.