Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

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.

Whoever calls on the Name of the Lord God, shall be saved.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

This is my question for conservatives: don't you want to live, too?

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

The pressure is always there... I just have got to go out there and enjoy my moment and do my best.

I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.

Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.