I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

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.

Never lose hope! You are capable of holding on to hope.

Having money is about handling it the correct way. In my lifetime, I've both lost and made millions.

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.