"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."

"My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip."

"It is a essential truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."