This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard.

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.