The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

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

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.