I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.

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.

Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

I have friends, but my brother is really the one person who I can confide in and talk to about anything.

It's important to take risks.

When we have money, we start making mistakes.

There's no such thing as an easy anything.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.