To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

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

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.