He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.