Audiences feel no hatred from me. Because I'm not bitter.

My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?