Jack Kerouac Quotes

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

'E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

The participants in any conflict cannot tell the entire story until some time after that conflict is fully resolved.

'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It's a story of redemption in a sense. I don't want to give too much away, but it's a heartbreaking story that's incredibly terrifying.

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.

Wins heal everything.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.

He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.

Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.