When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

I love diversity.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

A right delayed is a right denied.

It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Racism is real in this country.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘