There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.