My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Education • Intelligence
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Courage • Virtue
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Family • Love • Society
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Determination • Hope • Love
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Comfort • Home • Security
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
Diversity • Education • Equality
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Death • Human • Love
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Courage • Hope • Love
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Forgiveness • Growth • Improvement
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Acceptance • Confidence
Life loves the liver of it.
Inspiration • Life • Love
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Compassion • Empathy • Kindness
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
Courage • Growth • Honesty
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
Love • Pain • Youth
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Growth • Improvement • Learning
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Communication • Relationships • Respect
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Courage • History • Learning
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Destruction • Health
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Bravery • Freedom • Love
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Creativity • Expression • Inspiration
