My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

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.

Turn your adversity into building blocks for the palace of your dreams.

They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.

There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.

Monsieur, you must be mad!Box Five can never be hadFor money, love or the world ...

When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it next week because we are Afghans. That's the spirit.

You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.