I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

My main mission in life is to help people and use my God-given ability to impact the world. If playing in the NFL gives me a platform to advocate for the issues that are important to me, then let's do it.

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wonder that the Son of Man visited this dark, sinful, wretched earth by becoming Man - Christ's unity with the sinful was due to His love! Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Love begins when duty finishes. It is a giving of the cloak when the coat is taken. It is walking the extra mile.

A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.

One who cares for another assumes the weight of the other's condition on his own heart and bears it in love.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another's need and sacrifice for it, we suddenly find our soul aflame with glorious joy.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.