Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Consistency builds trust, confidence builds character.

All my friends are in my books.

It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

One of the most radical things that you can do is really listen to someone.

The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.