Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

Stretch your mind and fly.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre moves the plot forward at all times.

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.