“In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts”

“Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.”

“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.”

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.”

“Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.”

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

“We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.”