Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
I'm still, except for making overseas trips, I'm staying just about as busy as I ever did.
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. . . My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love. . . They're the guiding lights of a life.
The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.
Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.