... security is not having things

Don’t invest everything in another man’s calling

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people, " I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?