Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

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.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when all is said and done.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago.

I don't rate them, I just hit them.