I will never lie to you.

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.

In the words he’s free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

Words of the hero: "I am my fate.

Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.