We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

In the garden of humanity every baby is a fresh new flower.

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.