Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

The more you give to others, the more you get in return.

I'm always going to make sure I'm doing the right things.

The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.

The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.