Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

Life is not a destination to be reached, but it is a journey to be enjoyed.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

I've never asked for a happy ending

Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.