“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

The real original sin was to be an outsider.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life.

I'm mature enough to forgive you, but not dumb enough to trust you again.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.