“We are all just here for a time - whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we hold dear will live on long after we have left this stage. Our responsibility, while we are here, is to breathe life into them; to imbue them with the strength of our convictions and the weight of our efforts.” LongEarthValuesLeftEffortResponsibilityStageBuildingWeightDearConvictionBreathe Author:Loretta Lynch
“I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.” WorldMindPersonsNextLeftEffortToo MuchAffairConvictionMortalsImmortalityDecentImmortalPeace Of MindAfterlifeDefiniteAssurance Book:All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography Source: All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
“The most active people in the country know different things, and because each one tends to hear mostly and deal mostly with people with whom they agree, they are reinforced not simply in the conviction that they are right, which is totally appropriate, but that they are the majority. So you have both sides, the Left and the Right, thinking that the majority of the country is really with them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDifferentCountryLeftSidesDealsAgreeMajorityConvictionActiveAppropriateDifferent ThingsBoth Sides Author:Barney Frank