We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

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.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

If you're genuinely candid and expressive then you're never wrong, even when you are wrong.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

While you have people who are actually fronting for your needs and wants, sometimes your needs and wants may not be right for you. The people around you are just trying to keep their jobs.

People who work hard for their money cannot be placed in a worse position that those who allow their money to work for them.

If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.