The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27)

The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.

Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

It has become a fashion to declare a package after every crisis. The time has come to pack those who keep giving these packages that don't reach the farmers.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

To be an author, and an executive producer, and a host, and I don't even know, I mean I actually have a resume now, which is pretty cool.

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.

The UN platform was created precisely for this, to seek compromise, to communicate with one another. So it will definitely be nice if we make use of this platform.