We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

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.

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in.The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second.

We often over value what we can do on our own, and under value what God can do through us.

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

Turn your doubts to question turn your question to prayers turn your prayers to God.

It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?