On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

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.

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.

Learning is like the fuel that moves the machinery of your body towards it's destination of success. Shortage is possible, hence spare supply is necessary!

We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.