..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.

You don’t have to stop dreaming.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

I guess I was popular in high school.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

If you are not excited about your own dream, how can you expect anybody else to be?

Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security.

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.