"Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems."

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."

"Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole."

"Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing."

"Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

"We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities."

"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."

"I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool."

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."