I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

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

Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’.

Befriend simple thoughts for tangled ones may choke you

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

I'm tired of justifying what I've said.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.