We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

They do not love that do not show their love.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

It’s not possible to stop love.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

My business is to prevent the future.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.