I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.