We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.

I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.