How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.

I dreamt of you last night - as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Running in the relay of life sometimes makes me notice that faith takes over the baton when reason finished its part.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!