America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

 Spirituality is beyond rituals.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whatever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.