It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past so we should be all right.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

It's always really scary to release new work.

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.