If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.

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.

I just don't understand why those who fail to listen to others possess a habitual desire to be listened to.

Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.

California: Sunny nutland.

Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.