If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. 

Small aim is a crime.

Sometimes, success depends upon what you do after failure.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.