From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.

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.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.

Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.