While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices that mold and shape us.

When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.

The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

The more we are able to engage in enthusiastic disagreement with each other, the more we will be able to uncover the best in ourselves and each other.

When there is alignment and understanding, it is much easier to navigate forward together, moving in and out of agreement.

In other words, God Himself will prepare the man to meet these trials. Joseph found himself in this situation

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Writers write about what worries them.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.