I also learned that prayer is not as much about getting God to act in certain ways as it is about getting to the heart of God and getting my heart to reflect His heart.

Your vision helps the world identify you at the appropriate time.

Something good is a frontier

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.