Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

God is the designer of the family.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.

We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.

This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.