The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

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

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.

Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

I often love to hate Aishwarya