It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.' 'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.' 'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.'

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I'll be eating it.

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.

The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.