Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

I found my voice in books.

Live your vision and demand your success.

It's very difficult to stay in one's heart as it keeps beating

I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction

Family is what grounds you.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

The people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said.