For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

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.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered.And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

But what if time worked the other way around?What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?

If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Differ." Who know's what you'll find ?

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.