It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

I think I would have been much more attuned to the concerns of people who were desperately in need. I was unfamiliar, for instance, with the plight of those living in the small villages in the deserts and the jungles of Africa.

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.

The major violence now is because of a plethora, explosion almost, of rebel groups, all of whom oppose the government, and they're fighting each other, strangely precipitated by the fact that the United Nations and African Union has now planned peace talks.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.