Thurman Quote: “There were many seasoned men who were also inspiring teachers, touching us at a place in ourselves beyond all our faults and all our virtues. They placed over our heads a crown that for the rest of our lives we would be trying to grow tall enough to wear. This was a gift far greater than the imparting of information and facts.”

Thurman Quote: “There is always in every human relationship and in every private life someplace for humor, for the sparkle in the water of life.”

Thurman Quote: “The only hope for surcease, the only possibility of stability for the person, is to establish an Island of Peace within one’s own soul. Here one brings for review the purposes and dreams to which one’s life is tied. This is the place where there is no pretense, no dishonesty, no adulteration.... How foolish it is, how terrible, if you have not found your Island of Peace within your own soul! It means that you are living without the discovery of your true home.”

Thurman Quote: “...life consists of planting and harvesting, of sowing and reaping. We are always in the midst of the harvest and always in the midst of the planting….Living is a shared process. Even as I am conscious of things growing in me planted by others, which things are always ripening, so others are conscious of things growing in them planted by me.

Thurman Quote: “Memories crowd upon us as we look back over the week just passed: Many high hopes---many dreams unfulfilled; Many blunders made and, in the sharpness of our anguish, we would turn back the wheels of time and try again.”

Thurman Quote: “But life is not like that. The future is never quite a thing apart from all that has gone before. We bring into the present ingredients and cargoes from the past, and these are with us as we take the unknown road. All that we have learned, felt, and thought, all our experience from birth to now; all the love that nourished us at other times, all the yearnings rooted in our spirits--all these are with us as we move into the unknown way.”

Thurman Quote: “‘Howard,’ he said, ‘you must always do your own thinking but remember Wisdom was not born with you. That is all.’ In these nineteen words there was held before me a mirror. What I saw I have never quite forgotten.”

Thurman Quote: “And then, there is the witness of others who have gone along the road we take. True, the road will mean for us something unique but not altogether unique. The generations meet and share, in ways beyond our grasp, the secrets of the new path, the first step, the beginning way. ‘He leads us on by paths we did not know.’”

Thurman Quote: “This is the message of the spiritual. Do not shrink from moving confidently out into the choppy seas. Wade in the water, because God is troubling the water.”

Thurman Quote: “Always we are visited. Sometimes it is by an idea for which we do not seem to have had any previous preparation; sometimes by the penetration of an inspiration that shoots us out of the common path onto a road of high adventure; sometimes by the cumulative energy of a precious memory shedding a quiet haze over the entire landscape along which we walk. …”

Thurman Quote: “I finger one by one the messages of hope that awaited me at the crossroads”

Thurman Quote: “When have you noticed the color in the sky? When have you looked at the shape and place of a tree?...The renewal of mind and body after a night of restful sleep?