Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

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.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

A 'diet' is simply an individual's eating regimen: it doesn't have to mean the restrictive plan we've come to associate this word with.

You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.

Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

When we start to heal and perceive what I call love consciousness, we begin to perceive reality.

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!