Top 147 Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.