“One chapter ends, then… another begins.”

“People like a good story. Especially those about how someone came into glory.”

“Imagine how absurd it would be if people divided themselves and fought and killed each other over beliefs none of them could prove.”

“Truth is the foundation on which love exists.”

“If only I'd known, then

that all the time

I spent with someone else,

I needed you with every inch of myself.”

“I remember when the Afro was a statement. Not a style!”

Remember the past. Yes. Plan for the future. But live in the moment!

“With the world as it is, do you believe God is in control?”

“If y’all don’t let me play, I’m gonna take my ball and go home.”

“Mr. President, you have been accused of being a fascist. What do you say to that?”

“People’s stupidity is no mystery. It’s ancient history!”

“America, Quo Vadis?

Where are you going? Backward? Must we relive Plessy v. Ferguson all over again?”

Would you say we have more knowledge today about most things in general than we had, say, in 1960?

“A lie can never be the truth. Nor can the truth be a lie! Not ever, not anywhere, neither here on this plain nor in anyone else’s sweet by and by.”

“Even I was in disbelief. And I shouldn’t have been!”

“Our differences do not make us enemies.”

“Which religion can help humanity overcome its division?”

“Imagine the global cooperation it would take for humankind to…”

“The choices you make…”

“There are dark days ahead. And after them, darker days still.”