I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

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.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

After all it is not what you make, it is what you keep or pass on.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

She's taking pictures! Maryse, put it on Twitter!

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.

Victory is about recognizing all the work that went into achieving your dream.

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.