“Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.”
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“I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple”
“If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.”
“There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.”
“Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?”
“When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.”
“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.”
“Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question of somebody who's been here 20 years, paying taxes to which they probably do not receive a refund, and not committing any crimes, working hard, and supporting an industry. Shouldn't there be some middle ground here? Shouldn't there be a way for them to be welcome in this country?”
“As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.”
“For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.”
“Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.”
“Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.”
“Things come up in life and we don't feel like we can ever live through them, but if we're still alive afterwards, we get through it. It's that thing where what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I think that's beautiful.”
“The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand.”
“Anything we love can be saved.”
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
“Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.”
“This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value of man to man. The whole world is discovering that all mankind is one and that the unity of man is real – not just an abstract idea. Mankind is beginning to discover that the hurt of any man hurts every man, and, conversely, the uplift of any man uplifts every man”
“When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.”
“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.”