[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

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.

Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

I play a huge variety of roles

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

My tongue is pierced with glass.

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.