But their peace will never be greater than when they encounter evil people in peace and are willing to suffer from them."48

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.

Each of us at any time and space is doing the very best we can with what we have.

I don't blame anybody.  I deserve it all.  Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know—there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me—loved ones, property, everything; but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

we may be consoled that God has two lights; a light to guide us in the brightness of the day when hopes are fulfilled and circumstances are favorable, and a light to guide us in the darkness of the midnight when we are thwarted and the slumbering giants of gloom and hopelessness rise in our souls.