Despair is a natural emotion.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body.

Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.

The candle cannot burn without fire, similarly, your spiritual greatness cannot be measured without hardships

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.