You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

...story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, only safer.

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

One golden day redeems a weary year

Wine is a civilizing agent.

Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.