I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

My mantra, and the key to all my success is simple: relationships over results, always.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.