Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge we must produce educated people.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.”“I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

He's tall with shaggy blond hair and muscular arms. He's holding a twenty-dollar bill. He's muscular. And he's holding a twenty--wait, I already said that.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Some things are just perfect, even when they don't make any sense

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

Eight years after Reagan's nomination for president, the conservative movement is directionless

I would never feel comfortable doing my own makeup for a party or a big event, that's for sure. I'm really good at doing it to go to the grocery store.

I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up . . . they hear a recording of a busy signal.