Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!

he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in him and press up hard against it...

You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.