"I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do."

"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."

"Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am."

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one."

"The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization."