The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

Stretch your mind and fly.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.

To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.