Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better.

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep.

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!