Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

When we have reached the depths of despair, only then can we look up and see the light of hope.

Worthy or not, you will receive your destiny. Awake or not you will notice.

The most beautiful vision is the one that lines your heart and fills your mind~bns

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

Great minds sink alike, right?

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.