None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You cannot fool an audience.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.