Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

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.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.

Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.

Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish.

I collect a lot of clothes when I travel around the world.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

I do not judge the universe.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Congratulations on turning 60 Now you can wear what you like No one cares, and more particularly You're fine telling 'em 'Take a hike'

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.