Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.

The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

We aren't taught to mourn. We're told to forget.

If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.

Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with. He was my imaginary friend.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity