Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

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.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

Spread your wings and let me come inside.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.