I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

Bill Cosby

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

Darren L Johnson

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb

There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from the taint of sin... Among the gentlest and sweetest souls are sometimes found those who suffer much. A person that accepts his lot, does his best, loving both God and man, is a success and will experience a joy in living.

Joseph F. Merrill

A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness.

Frederic Glezer

In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

Thomas Jefferson

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Dalai Lama

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Torquato Tasso

Have you tried talking to her? No, Jace said, we've been punching her repeatedly in the face instead.

Cassandra Clare

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

Stephen King

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

John F. Boyes