if you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. - Bill Clinton

We are engaged mainly in a struggle for the soul of this new century. Victory for our vision depends upon winning the fight we're in against terrorism, on spreading the benefits, and reducing the burdens of the modern world, on changes in poor nations themselves that will make progress possible, and finally, on developing a global level of consciousness about what our responsibilities to each other are and what our relationships ought to be.

It's a failed policy. Basically, we gave corporations everything they asked for without a struggle . . . I find it totally outrageous when the government says we have too much capacity (mills) and then signs off on raw-log exports.

The marathon is not really about the marathon, it's about the shared struggle. And it's not only the marathon, but the training.

It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.