being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.

The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.

You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.

No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.

The Richest person is not the Happiest person, the Happiest person is the Richest person.

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

Someone Else's words can detour your potential!

The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.

How do you even start a book you know is going to be your last?

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked

How sweet a thing it is to love and to be loved again.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.