It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.
Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.
It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.
Barack Obama didn't get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to reach the broadest number of people you have to speak to their interests as broadly as you can.
Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.
A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.
Mormon leaders said in a statement they will reexamine their ties to the Boy Scouts. "The church," they said, "has always welcomed all boys to its Scouting units regardless of sexual orientation. However, the admission of openly gay leaders is inconsistent with the doctrines of the church and what have traditionally been the values of the Boy Scouts of America. "
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. . . Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.
I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.