Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

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

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

But surely we are not allowed..." "Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.

We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.

The questionnaire is a simple first step toward becoming more self-aware.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.