Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will. ' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of time. Time that moves us so that we lose our sense of time; timeless time; moments at which the clocks seems to stop; feeding, renewing, more motherly time. It's the time with which we feel one instead of outside of it, the self, the tao, the love that connects us to others.
As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey. . . then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
If God didn't want you to masturbate, he would have given you short arms.