One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Ideas have endurance without death.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men.