It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.