Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Humanity lives in its fiction.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to go college.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

Michael: There's nothing here to fear. Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.