What is true in the South is true for America.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.

I'm sorry you lost the suit, ' he said.She shrugged.'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway, ' she said...

If a person thinks continually about the purity and holiness of God, then that holiness will begin to show itself in that person's life.

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.