Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

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

Smile, laugh, spread a little joy in someone's life, it surely come back on you in a good way.

Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.

... this idea, that humans are essentially weak creatures, is actually deeply woven into a lot of the ways in which humans think about our bodies.

If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

When you see big people, they expect them to wobble or something. The whole feeling of bigger people in this country is so negative. This works for me.

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

We are all fighting something.