For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

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.

Failure makes the success worth it.

Luckily, I don't think that I'm too famous. I can still live my life pretty comfortably. Fame has never really ever appealed to me. I think it's easy to see that it's not a great thing to have.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

Obviously I struck gold with Deadwood. No pun intended.

A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.