If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

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

All these mirrorscarnival distortionsof selves we never were.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

I find everything a struggle.

It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes