Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

Time to dance with the devil....

So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

A dead love never dies.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.