I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.