Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.

Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.