When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.

Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun.

It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

I guess love laughs at history a little.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.