What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America".

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.