Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

Here on earth God's work must surely be our own.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.