I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification economic contributions and humanitarian concerns.

No one can find inner peace except by working not in a self- centered way but for the whole human family.

The family only represents one aspect however important an aspect of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Women are in my view natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

I come from a family of very devout praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

The practice of patience toward one another the overlooking of one another's defects and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family in the professions and in society.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family what have you really accomplished?

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.