“Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.”

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back.

No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don’t know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: ‘I don’t think I can. I don’t think I will.’… To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.

An artist should… bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, “What is their work in the service of?”

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’

I would welcome, quite frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. I think it would be a wonderful thing if we bring back our Judeo-Christian values once again. I think it could do nothing but help us. I would be all in favor of that.

If there’s anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.

I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.