The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

All you need is a dream to drive you nuts.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

I washed mud off of mud.

When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?