What are we without belief, without purpose?

You are the daughter of your Father, inheritor of the Earth, beautiful and blameless, chosen.

Beautiful. Worthy of the highest love. Powerful and perfect. Beautiful is my daughter.

The truth is beautiful, like you. The truth is you have been made perfect and are wholly loved. Chosen simply because you breathe, because you exist, because of who created you.

Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.

The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little he who would achieve much must sacrifice much he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

The older I get, the less I negotiate. When you first start out, it's 90 percent negotiation and 10 percent suggestion. When you get to a certain point, those figures reverse.

The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.

Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?