Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.

A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.