I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

In school, I was an underachiever.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.

Life, even in the hardest times, is full of moments to savor. They will not come this way again, not in this way.

The left, if you get them honest, will admit they know they're a minority.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.