First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.

You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.