“I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.”

“The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.”

“I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.”

“...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.”

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

“Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.”

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”