Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

Stretch your mind and fly.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.

Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.

How well I would write if I were not here!

Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

To me, anything goes. But that's me.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.