The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

Believe in yourself, keep a can-do approach, struggle hard and watch success follow.

You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.

Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.

Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.