If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.