Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

The future begins today.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do.

All right, baby, " Daphne crooned."Talk to Mama and tell me all your secrets. . . .

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.