Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?