A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.

Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.

The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.

Don't be afraid to let yourself get bored because some of the most amazing things are created through boredom.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.