Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

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.

I wasn’t too late. I got there in time. I didn’t lose her.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.