True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Never modify your goals, amplify your might.

There are things that go bump in the night

One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

I used to consider myself to be a cineophile, and then I had a daughter. Ha! Now I barely see any movies.

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.