I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

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

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.