The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

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.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

A positive attitude will elevate your energy and invigorate your tasks.

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.

Enjoying science shouldn't be rocket science.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.