Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here. ' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.
Most American men are repressors.
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.