But no one can ever say I didn’t sing.

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

Time alone helps us to remember who we are.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

Gingerbread houseswith gumdrops and peppermintand marshmallow snow.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].