When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.
Do not walk behind me, I may not lead. Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed.
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
