I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.