Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill, " said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

We pray for a messenger from God—who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.

That's the main thing you have to have... trust.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

I was born to enjoy life. And so it is.

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

What we project, we get back.

You don't have to choose between your faith and your sexuality. You're not alone, things will get better, and God loves you exactly the way you are.