The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

To whom much is given, much is required.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]