I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.

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.

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

Reconciliation means - in victory, I win and you're wrong, and then you lose.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)

False love is only blinder.

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

I am different, not less