I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell."

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.