Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell - and I mean that in a Christian way.

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.

Power is a delicate thing. The most powerful storms on earth intensify rapidly, but dissipate just as fast if not faster.

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

Don’t judge based on what you see, judge based on what you know, because the two are rarely similar.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.