As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

In America, money takes the place of God.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

The world is a wheel always turning.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view

What separates the wise from the unwise is

I have seven different jewels for my piercing. Every day I wear a different one, according to the clothes I am wearing.

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

Making movies is really hard, and it can be humbling. And once you put them out into the world, you can't control how people will respond to it.

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.