If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.

As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.

If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went.

Let us be loving, be kind, be simple, be silly, be happy.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

What you can't imagine, you can't discover.

Before we can experience the pure & serene state of love, we must learn how to give forgiveness - to ourselves & to others. Have you forgiven yourself?

I had never been to second base.

I'm concerned about how Hillary Clinton's going to govern.

People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco.