It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.