The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period.Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes andin your pants.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.