"I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control."

“It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it.”

“Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.”

“I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.”

Source : "Ben Vereen’s Remarkable Journey Of Love And Loss". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

“People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.”

“If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished,”

Source : "State of Israel could disappear, warns Olmert" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2007.

“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”

“When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."”