A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Let your aims be common, and your hearts of one accord, and all of you be of one mind, so you may live well together.

