Faith and optimism come from love.

That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism.

I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.