integrity

Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.

I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you _ Let love be truly love__hat is, let it be peace__r let it not exist at all.

The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Truth is only true if it is true for all.

Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda. Such a man's judgment lacks merit and should be disregarded immediately. Without a conscience, there is no truth in them.

She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive_ my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people