If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.