“Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.”

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.

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.

Change your thinking and change your life.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.