Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.