Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

I've never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you'll be mine.

Every man is the conscious or unconscious author of his state.

The more important one feels the greater the illusion is.

My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.

Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.