He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Who can understand the profound mystery of God?

River is river.

It is better to love than hate.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.