Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

I love stories about women.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

We boil at different degrees.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.