Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
Isn’t that what growing up is all about – learning to outlast despair?
Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
All of life is the exercise of risk.
It’s so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
I’m delighted that the future is unsure. That’s the way it should be.
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
Love is in the giver, not the gift.
Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal.
This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions.
God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven’t a single doubt.
Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.
Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal.
A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.
Any day above ground is a good one.
The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.
Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.
The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you’re gone.
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.