I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. Waiting and waiting and waiting . . .
Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.