No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

As a leader, it's a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.

Good ball players make good citizens.