In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

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.

Every life is a story make your life a best seller.

I'm a big romantic, so I love guys who are romantic too.

It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

Optimism is my best defense.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.