I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

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.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.You cannot truly know strength without weakness.You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.You cannot truly know hope without despair.

When you are mindful of Spirit and connecting to the breath with an open heart, that is yoga.

Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.