The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

The Lord is my rock, shield and great defender.

Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.

Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Sometimes success is disguised as hard work.

As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.