Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.