Someone saved a guy who was committing suicide. Now both of them believe in life after death.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot log retain it. 

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

By common endeavour we can raise the country to a new greatness, while a lack of unity will expose us to fresh calamities.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.