There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.

When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.

It's the family you choose that counts.

And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin

Friends, you like it or not, life has a way of teaching us all these tough lessons.

Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.