Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge we must produce educated people.

They're Lares. House gods.""House gods, " Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.