Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Women who marry for money and Men who marry for beauty are equally robbed in the end.

If you love me, feed my sheep.

As long as you don't forgive who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

I smoke occasionally, but it's not a part of my routine. I mean, I don't need it.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

Hillary Clinton skated because she's running for president. She clearly violated the law.