Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas

If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can’t fly above your room.

I want to glide in a world of beauty, ’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.