My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.

Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time.

By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.