I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.

Habits are the determinant of who will be rich or be poor.

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.