Life is a poem most people never read.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

Charlotte made a promise to herself then and there: If I ever see someone fall, I'll ask if they're okay.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

One thing Barack Obama is: He's a good campaigner. He's a terrible president.

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.