My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

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.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.

I think my generation was one of the last to remember the first days of the internet.