The universe was playing with loaded dice, which insured an excess of cowards in our ranks.

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.

The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious.

Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.

To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers.

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

Serious history was the West, and the West was white.

She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers.

Common sense often makes good law.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

I never considered myself to be special. If anything, I considered myself to be awkward, and still do sometimes.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.