I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

The path of light is true enlightenment.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.