We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content