don't always feel like being nice and pleasant, but I can choose to in order to honor God.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

How can a man know he is one when his highest aim is minding his manners?

Equality in America has never meant literal equality of condition or capacity. There will always be inequalities in character and ability in any society. Equality has meant rather that in the words of the Declaration of Independence, All men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. It is meant that in a democratic society there should be no inequalities in opportunities or in freedoms.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

Kindness is a Language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.