As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

God's creation is absolute amazing.He is the great God of wonders.

Every photo tells a story but remember this, there was a story teller behind the lens.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.