One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

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

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

If one flower has to grow out of all the weeds, let that flower be YOU.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.