I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

I was born on Delaware Street. We have never desired another home.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

I'm much more conspicuous having long hair than I will be with it short.

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

I have a strong tennis arm.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

Girls are stronger in numbers. So yes, I believe girls should stick together whenever possible.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

It is worth it to serve the Lord, young people. It is worth it, it is worth it, it is worth it a million times.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. I became sort of aware. I used to get so angry.