You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.