Testing oneself is best when done alone.

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.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

For a product to really be sustainable, it's really got to deliver the goods for the end user. That drives the whole rest of the equation.

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Even to play a dead body; that'd be an easy gig.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes...

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.