None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.