A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.

To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.

A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Oh, precious losing streak, you're too cute for your own good. I try to laugh about itbut my face is made of wood.

Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!

In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

That's really the fundamental question we face here in the beginning of this 21st century is whether or not we believe as a nation and others believe it is possible to defeat this ideology.

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.