Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

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.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

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 is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Pakistan is not a unified country.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

I hate the idea of genres.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

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.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.