There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.

Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.

Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing. Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you want, but because of what you choose to do.

As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works. Nothing else lasts long enough.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.

You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.