"Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known."

"It is a enduring truth that a quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out."

"In the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Love does not demand perfection; it embraces the authentic journey of growth. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got."

"The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky."

"One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller."

"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another."