He'd been ten years old when he'd last begged someone for something, and he'd promised himself he'd never do it again, but this was too important.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.