We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

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.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

Faith is a curious thing It must be renewed it has its own spring.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.