We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

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.

Love is more potent than wine

There is only two types of women in the world:1. beautiful2. very beautiful

There are things which money cannot buy

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

What I want for Christmas is to be a Japanese pop star. [Laughs] Santa can't exactly put that under the tree, but I'm hoping that some magic will happen overseas.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.