Love and a red rose can't be hid.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

The past is only a guidepost... not a hitching post.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

My mother is my life's breath.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

We're here to have a ball.

There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

It's always freezing on planes.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.