My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.