The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

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

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

Sorrow looks back worry looks around faith looks up.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.