I believe that America does not have to be great to be good.
I believe that virtue rewarded is no true virtue.
I believe that killing, whether done by persons or by states, is always wrong.
I believe that happiness comes not by pursuit, but by grace.
I believe that strangers shouldn’t be.
I believe that pigeon-holing is a sin.
I believe that life is precious and that death is what it seems to be.
I believe that what is truly ours is not what we acquire, but what we create.
I believe that not to risk is not to live.
I believe that art, the act of making beauty, is what we were made for.
I believe that envy belittles God’s beneficence.
I believe that I know very little, but the little I know is wondrous.