In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.