It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.
Our choice, always, is to love and understand.
I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.