History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I like bowling. I suck at it, but I like it. You know what's so funny? I have days when I'm absolutely great at doing it, and then I have days when I just don't understand it.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.