The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.

The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.

All life is theatre, ' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....

Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...

God’s joy can fill our days with gladness until we receive the answer we are waiting for.

A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find. Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind.

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.