My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

Uplifting God’s Kingdom on earth should be our life’s mandate as believers

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

Trash? The only trash I see here are two little boys lost at sea and a pathetic excuse for a seaworthy vessel!

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.