The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

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