The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.
You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
nothing can wear you out like caring about people
You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.
Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious. " But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.