That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

One of the greatest secrets of great leaders

try not just to become a person of success but rather a person of value.

We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe.

Love stories always seem to be a spark.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.