I had very little involvement with 'TinTin'. Very little involvement. So I can't really elaborate on that either.
You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.
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.
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death. . . I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
If I have one advantage, it's that I will try to work harder than the next guy.