Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Coca cola and McDonalds is spreading. Just like hunger and poverty.

I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.

What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

The major key to your better future is you.

Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enough

The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.

For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.

We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.