"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

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

A single thought can shift your entire world.

Boredom is a positive attitude's enemy.

Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.

The biggest challenge of Gods people is ignorance. Ignorance has become a mountain and a stronghold even in Christian churches

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Words that do not create images should be discarded.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.