If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
Sidney PoitierAccept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
Sidney PoitierWe're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
Sidney PoitierI've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.
Sidney Poitier