Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.

In a job you trade your freedom and time for money.

Once we were in love, So I know it's true, the saying: True love never endsFor as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more Now that we are friends

Life is too magnificent to complain.

Sin is like a cancer that destroys step by step, sometimes so slowly we don't realize what's happening to us.

No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.