The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.