'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.' 'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.' 'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.'

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

You gotsta love all God's children!

From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No!

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

All great Christians have been wounded souls.

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?

While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.