We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963

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

He who doesn't fear his own imagination...is not worthy to envision.

Holy crap! Was there a demon inside this guy?

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Be yourself and look outside of yourself.

Real creativity comes only out of silence.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.