My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.

I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

To excel in life, one must become conscious that the way lived is not the only way of living.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.

If you never quit, you're never beaten.

[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.