“Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.”

He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.

We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.

Keep hope alive!

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.

To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity – and an obligation – to help them turn this desire into reality.

Misery doesn’t love just any company it desires the kind presence only loneliness feeds but that’s not love at all. – love doesn’t eat it bleeds.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.

Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.