Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

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

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I feel Anglo-American.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.