Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge we must produce educated people.

Virtues untie the knots that life could sometimes bring our way and they glide us through easily.

Better planning guarantees success

Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. - How to make an American Quilt

Security is not the absence of danger but the presence of God no matter what the danger.

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.