A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Abraham Lincoln once said, "I feel sorry for the man who can't feel the whip when it is laid on the other man's back.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.