Sacrifice

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom.

To make a difference in this world, you must be involved. By serving a higher calling here or abroad, you'll make your lives richer and build a more hopeful future for our world.

It's not a cause, that's an emergency. And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population lives on less than one dollar a day — that's not a cause, that's an emergency.

No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting up another person.

To be in a locker room before a big game and to look into strong faces, which say, 'If we can only do it today' — to be with aggressive, ambitious people who have lost themselves in something bigger than they are — this is what living is all about.

We must make the dead live. We must make them live in the world's commencement of abiding peace based on justice and charity.

My message comes from millions of women now mostly past and gone. They lived in a single century; they endured, struggled, and suffered, almost unbelievably, in order that you, unborn in their day, might inherit privileges, opportunities and liberties for which they had so prayerfully longed, but were never permitted to know.

Those who work for a great cause receive comforting satisfaction in the knowledge that they will leave the world better than they found it.