Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world

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 feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.

I feel like a good song is one that ticks all the boxes, but a great song is one that has this kind of special quality that just resonates with people.