"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."

"While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted."

"I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over."

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."