I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

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.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

People run away to be alone, ' he said. Some people had to be alone.

perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people

California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.

If I wasn’t winning you wouldn’t care

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.