Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.