There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

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.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.

God's glory in our lives has little to do with our sacrifice and everything to do with our surrender.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil.

Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)