I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

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.

Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!

It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

Once spun, The silken thread of all our aspirationsRemains intact, It can never be broken.

Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.

When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.