You don't blast a heart open, " she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.

Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.

My dad’s life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline.

Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.

There is one government with which we keep diplomatic relations, the government of Mexico, with which we have good relations. Our systems are different. We respect their system.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.