Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

First love yourself.. the real inner-self.. then only you’ll be able to love the world.. the lives.. the souls.

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

I'm searching for a real love.

And see she flies, and she is everywhere.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.