Deeds, not words shall speak me.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Action expresses priorities.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Where words fail, music speaks.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...