Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

One of the greatest lies ever told to women is that it is only when they make up that they become beautiful

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

Every story needs a Hero.

From Aus B. Shurahbil" He heard Allah Messenger say: "One who strives to strengthen an oppressor and knows he is an oppressor has already left Islam. Baihaqi

My occupation doesn't really allow for routines, but I'm pretty consistent about tea in the morning.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

I think optimism and humour are key words for me to make the films accessible, which means they can really travel and be seen by as many people as possible.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.