It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Mitt Romney has a fund-raiser. He's going to get in the ring and fight Evander Holyfield. This is the dumbest thing Republicans have done since they wrote that open letter to Iran.

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

It's like a dream job to work with your friends.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.