As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

At sacred-time, I will give birth to divine-twins in Jesus Name. Amen.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!

It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.

I always like to make sequels. It's a nice business to be in.

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.