The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.