A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.

George Bernard Shaw

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Johann von Goethe

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

William Law

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Donna Brazile

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Albert Einstein

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

Manny Pacquiao

The purpose of all war is peace.

Augustine of Hippo

Love, then, hath every bliss in store; 'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more. Each other every wish they give; Not to know love is not to live.

John Gay

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Lincoln Steffens

(The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him to work for his own improvement; if the second it has led him to acknowledge his own weakness. Sooner or later, the unpleasant consequences of such weakness will lead him to grapple with it, and develop his power of will...Immediately and directly, it may either strengthen him or weaken him. Ultimately, it can only strengthen him.

Paul Brunton

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Jodi Picoult

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Oswald Chambers