You just have to have a simple faith.

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.

My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

Everything changes and nothing stands still.

I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.