I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

One person can change the world.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Every greed is the root of un-gratefulness.

Life is like a storm. At its worst, it's full of blinding fury, rage, and destruction. However, at its best, it is full of striking beauty and wonder.

Ignore the world when it forgets to tell you that you are beautiful...A goddess needs no reminding...

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.

Don't be amazed. There is nothing strange about eight white men being alone and therefore helpless.

Punching a woman is like punching a one-year old black baby in the face

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

I love his Word and I hope when readers discover how God communicates his love for them through each book of the Bible, they'll fall deeper in love with his Word too.

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.