We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality.

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say

Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.

This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Hasn’t anyone ever told you? Life isn’t fair.