In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.