The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

If you don't keep track of great ideas, you'll stop noticing you have them.

I wonder if life is a fairy tale!

One should look forward rather than backwards.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

In America, we're not making anything anymore. China and other countries are making our products. We are rebuilding China.

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.

the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

Promise me you will appreciate every moment because we are the lucky ones

Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social network.