To receive love is good, but to be loved unconditionally, I don’t know what’s greater than that.

He who is great judges himself and sets his own standards.

A human being must have an auxiliary means of discovering the truth, a means that exists outside of his own belief or outside any alleged revelation. Otherwise…well, who’s to say he isn’t insane?

People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

A gift.A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.

If the only thing that matters is what is written on your heart seek those things that matter most.

If you wished to be loved, love.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

Punish the deed, not the breed.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.