If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quack like a duck, then it just may be a duck.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Management has no divine rights.

I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.

Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

Nature hates calculators.

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.