I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. 

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. 

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. 

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.