Manipulation is not of God, it is the highest form of sorcery for it enslave the soul to the will of man.....

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

You don't have to be ruled by fate. You can choose freedom, and I still believe that that's something worth fighting for.

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.