Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

I believe my past is my strength.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.