Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.

God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.