We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.

Faith is the ability to endure.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.

We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.

Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.

In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.

When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.

The loss of liberty may imprison a person, but it does not confine their mind.

Do not just believe in God and neglect the fact that He has an unprecedented belief in you.

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.