When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

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

If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?

The human race has improved everything except the human race.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Wisdom and knowledge are two different things.

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.