This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.

When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams.

Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.

In an era of magic conveniently available at the touch of a button, new music should on principle represent something akin to 'danger'.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really.

I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.