In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

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.

What we frankly give forever is our own.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

If you wish to be loved, love.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.