We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.

I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?

If you're going to dream, why dream small?

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.