Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.
Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.
What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
It’s about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.
If you want the things people don’t have, you have to do the things other people will not do.
The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield.
The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
I hope and understand that people are getting a better recognition that food stamps is a program that really helps America, helps families in need. It’s not a government handout. If anything, it’s a safety net that helps people through difficult times and bridges them towards stability.
You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won’t come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.
We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It’s costing every commuter.
We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.
The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.
There is too much disagreement for disagreement’s sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.
We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new ‘Declaration of Inter-dependence.’ A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.
One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.