Sports is the toy department of life.
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career. ’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.
I don't have to retire to be happy.
I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.