People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway...

You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them.

I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.

The stars in the sky will hang there till You tell them to.

Mom, you're the one who said to never stop in case I get raped or picked up by a democrat.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.