Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Fear not the unknown. For it is a sea of possibilities.

She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.