My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

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.

When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

Wherever your joy is, go after it, ... pretty ladies.

The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts.

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.