My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

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.

Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys."