Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

Biology transcends society.

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

Do I make you nervous?" he said teasingly.

The earth is crying for people who make sound judgement and informed decisions.

You can not achieve anything if you just sit and complain.Try your best with everything you have.

The only way to pray is to pray and the way to pray well is to pray much.

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray