The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

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