It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.

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.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.

People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.

People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.