You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

But there was little heart to our lust, only the confusion of not knowinghow long we'd have in our bodies.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.

I think we have a lot of tools, a lot of skills to do certain things.

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.