We had to restructure our military and our politics and so on. We're a new democracy. We're a nascent democracy.

If you have a problem, if you have a fire in your house, would you want - don't want your neighbors to give you a hand? That's what we have.

There is no where that life problem can take you that God's presence cannot reach you. There is nothing that people can do to you that can keep God from getting to you.

Future dreams distract you from present nightmares.

The moment we notice our thoughts is one of the most transformative experiences we can have.

Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence.

Starting something can be easy, it is finishing it that is the highest hurdle.

The attitude you bring to your giving will reflect the benefits you gain.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from.

The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.