Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.