If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.

To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.

A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

Happiness lies in simplicityComplexity brings anxiety.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.

When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I don’t want to get near the camera.

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.

I never looked at bread the same way again