“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

“If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessnessif we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistr...”

“Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.”

“The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”

“Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.”

“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”

“So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.”

“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.”

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this i...”

“If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty of your love. Remind me of important things -- friends, flowers, fields of cool grass under bar...”

“Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.”

“Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights.”

“And you know once a man has fished, or watched the thrushes hovering in flocks over the village in the bright, cool, autumn days, he can never really be a townsman, and to the day of his death he w...”

“The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear someone say that all the people that belong to a certain country, race, or religion ...”