If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.