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No road is long with good company. — Turkish proverb

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometime courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." — MaryAnne Radmacher

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg

A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. — Shakespeare

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Thomas Carlyle

When Jeffrey Weiss of the Dallas Morning News wanted to find the origins of Kum-ba-ya, he talked with ethnomusicologist Thomas Miller, who said the song originated as a spiritual among the Gullah, an African-American people who live in the Sea Islands and the coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia. It’s believed that a missionary couple transported the song to Angola, where it was rediscovered and brought back to the US in the ‘50s and ‘60s. — dallasnews.com

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves . . . (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. — Howard Zinn

Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead me Thou on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step is enough for me. — John Henry Newman

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. — Carl Sandburg