'Tis a gift to be simple 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right We will be in the valley of love and delight.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

A nation that is divided, need love to be united.

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.