It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.
Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.
Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.