Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Love is not merely an attribute of God’s character but the essence of his being

Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity.