A candle must give itself away.  In the giving, the spending, the spreading, the sending, it finds itself.

If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.

I am here to tell you – people are good. And they will overwhelm you with their willingness to make things better for others.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Our hands will not be clean until we get them dirty, until we roll up our sleeves and match our words with deeds.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Love can triumph over hate, but only if it is familiar to one’s heart and strong by exercise.

We have religion when we look upon people with all their failings, and still find in them good.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

We know we don’t have all the answers. Here, we can at least share our questions. And here, we can share a lot more than that: we can share our thoughts and ideas, we can share our pain and our hope. Here we can remember that we are not alone.

I am but a drop of water. Alone, I would disappear. Dried up by the scorching sun or sucked up by the dry, thirsty earth. But together, we can wear out stones, carve out the Grand Canyon, make streams and rivers, and find our way to the sea.