To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.

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'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

The fun we’ll have tonight is called figging.

Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.

What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction.

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.