Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.