America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.