“Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage; it will be hard to capture it again!”

“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. ”

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free. Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.”

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

“Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.”

“People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.”

“May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears.”

“The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”

“Nobody finishes well by accident.”

“it is more important how you change the lives of those whom you touch every day than whether or not you change the world.”

“Your best days are still out in front of you”

“Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.”

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”

“When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.”

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”