I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

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.

The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow.

It's never been a question of who is going to let me behave a certain way

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

If it's not fun, you are not doing it right.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

If you stop eating donutes you will live 3 years longer.It's just 3 more years that you want a donut. < . ) < .

Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.