Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

Is the undertaker joyous when his turn comes around? All those years holding the door open. To pass through - does it feel like a privileged?

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.

Without differentiation you have no brand

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

When life gets blurry, adjust your focus.