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

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.

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.

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.

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

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

If you play and work hard then rest hard.

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

No amount of telling is worth doing it once.