Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.