There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

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.

The opinions of souls are their state of being. Dwell on your own sacred thoughts.

I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark.

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

If you are not living in joy, you are out of integrity with your soul.

If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.

I have this mistress: show business.

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?