Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

It's never too late to change your luck

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

The best hand always believes in playing by the rules.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Prions are highly indestructible.

I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.