We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

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.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.

... it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

Success comes through small daily wins.

About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

My daily routine is to make every day the best day.

Thank you Lord, for being patient with me. For its so hard to see, when my eyes are on me.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.