History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

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.

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

Many self-leaders lead the world even by being invisible. The world learns from them without sitting in their classrooms.

Love is the nature of who God is

Each creature is a unique piece of art to be respected and believed in. once we realise this, equality follows.

Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.