“My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."”

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

“I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty.”

“Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.”

“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”