If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn’t poor.

Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.

Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.

Love your skin, give oil a go.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.