I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

I find there aren't that many options as an actor.