It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.