...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.