Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

A bearded man is a woman provided for.

After the rain, the sun will shine

The sun rises for free

The brain is a tool for the heart

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime

Your mind is trying to find an escape and does not want to rise to that level to which the master is trying to raise you, trying to pull you up.

By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of the Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.

One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.

Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives – professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.

The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Why cant I just eat my waffle?

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Were not going to baby sit a civil war.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we dont like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but dont want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

We need somebody whos got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what its like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what its like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and thats the criterion by which Ill be selecting my judges.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that weve set. Weve got to have a civilian national security force thats just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

We cant drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. Thats not leadership. Thats not going to happen.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

Theres not a liberal America and a conservative America - theres the United States of America.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - theres the United States of America.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

The thing about hip-hop today is its smart, its insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

The Bush Administrations failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.