Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.

When you help other people you also help yourself it's impossible to not feel good when you do good for other people

… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things

Eager for bread and love.

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

We need Jesus every moment of every day. To say anything else is ludicrous.