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.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.