Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.