I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place:...
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
But just as a society must have a scapegoat, so hatred must have a symbol.
Ashore, the palms gently bowed before the wind, mixing the rustling of fronds with the murmur of surf in a captivating voice of mid-ocean solitude. With fully restored mind and body, I sailed away the...
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
We are living in an age of revolution, whether we will or no, and that America is the only Western nation with both the power and, as I hope to suggest, the experience that may help to make these revo...
You think...that my life is shameful because my encounters are. And they are. But you should ask yourself why they are.Why are they—shameful?Because there is no affection in them, and no joy. It’s lik...
You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free.
You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know.
You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to climb...
Yes, Mama. I’m going to try to love the Lord. At this there sprang into his mother’s face something startling, beautiful, unspeakably sad—as though she were looking far beyond him at a long, dark road...
What is meant by a new society is one in which inequalities will disappear, in which vengeance will be exacted; either there will be no oppressed at all, or the oppressed and the oppressor will change...
To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought...
Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.
The world tends to trap and immobilize you in the role you play; and it is not always easy—in fact, it is always extremely hard—to maintain a kind of watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one...
The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters. He encounters, because he must encounter, those...
The life you think you should want,’ said Eric, ‘is always the life that looks safest.