"To walk the path of enlightenment means the pursuit of truth is a lifelong endeavor."

"It is a enduring truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson."

"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."

"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."

"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

"In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing."

"I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet."

"Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ."