Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

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

Normal life is presentable. In normal life, you clean up the kitchen and keep your balcony tidy and take care of your children. It's hard work--harder than one might think.

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

I'd be damned if I let him see the tears in my eyes.

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.