"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"

"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies."

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired."

"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

"I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up."

"I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence."