Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.

The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.

Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.