The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

Laugh now, cry later.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

My mom was always someone who if, even now, I say I met a certain famous person, she always says, "She's married to so and so!"

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.