Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.