I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

Any form of art is a form of power.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Think you can live forever, act like today is your last day on earth.

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebody's way.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

It is not the bowing, the dancing, the clapping and the singing that produce the worship, for at best they can only express that worship, but it is the worship that produces the jubilant responses.

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.