If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

My story has been the story of my generation.

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

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.

I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.