Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Reading is my breath.

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Close your eyes and stare into the dark.

I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

I'm already in the (record) books three or four times.

Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.

I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.