“Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.”

I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.

One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures – joined with the similar failures of others – can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

To protect, restore and rewild the living world is probably the most effective solution we have at hand to fight both the climate- and ecological emergencies.

Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each other.