Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

You can never become great living the life of a time waster.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

Success is outliving your failures

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen.

The heavens are full of floating mysteries.