There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare. . . are to be found portrayed in it.
There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.
I don’t like Drake as a person. He’s just fake to me.
My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are. And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river.
[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.