Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

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.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.

Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

I love well-designed products that combine form and functionality.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.