The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

LIFE’S SOFT EDGES‘Tis a truth I will confess that we ofttimes find soft edges –to such a degree, our livesare well manifestof people’s kindliness.

We all go through our entire lives not knowing. Wondering. Trying.Untile we sleep.

Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It’s more than a state of mind. It’s a condition of the heart.

He had to keep busy

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour but that which we have forgotten having said or even what we never said will cause laughter even into the next world.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.