You would destroy yourselves but He would be your savior.

He believed with all his heart that we should spend our lives in happiness and service, in joy and work, in kindness and in love, and he lived... and died... what he believed.

What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?

There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one's life.

Endurance is a good virtue.

No girl can forget the day she lost her virginity, or the circumstance that led to it

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.

Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is: Do you have the guts to do something about it?

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

You never see anyone wearing a black turtleneck and leather jacket doing something nice.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.