Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

There is no college for the conscience.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.

You are a royal child of God. There is absolutely nothing less about you. So stop letting people step on you like a mat.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France.

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

Being you is the only thing worth spotlighting.