It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.

All ways will lead and take you there as long as you know where you want to go.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

I've had a lot of good people in my life.

My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

History is the memory of a nation

Free your mind from the colonization of thinking within the obtuse parameters of 'right' and 'left', of conservatives and liberals.