What courage must a human possess to stand at ease and witness the birth of the sun.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Cheer up, be of good courage.

It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.

Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

Success is knowing that one other human being has breathed a little easier because you lived.

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.