“When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”
“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”
“Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt.”
“There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”