Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

There are other times. There are other adventures. There are other dreams .

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.