I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

Develop a strong opinion about yourself so that you don’t accidentally start believing what others say about you.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.