It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

A day may sink or save a realm.

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.

The right shoe can make everything different.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!