"It is a timeless truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience."

"Wisdom principle 1 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 59."

"Wisdom principle 6 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 62."

"It is a enduring truth that kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."

"Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity."

"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006."

"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations."