“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.”

“We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.”

“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.”

“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevi...”

“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”

“But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to...”

“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.”

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!”

“Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.”