A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.

Every girl in the world should have geisha training

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

I like English parks.

Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness.

I do believe I can forgive almost any shortcoming a person may have except lack of enthusiasm.