Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

Stretch your mind and fly.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

In art economy is always beauty.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Let's make hay while it lasts.

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent.