I've committed adultery in my heart.

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.

It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.

Politics is not really my thing.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.

The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation.

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.