None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions. ...When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.