The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.