If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

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

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.

The price of love is high- but pain- we sell it cheap.

I won't ever do e-mail.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse.

Morality is stronger than tyrants.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.