I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.