We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

The first hint of the Gospel comes from Genesis 3:15, this is the first promise of salvation.

A gust of wind set the leaves of grass to dancing and celebrated the grass's song before it died.

Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.

People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.