To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices.

Communication is not a one-way street.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.