I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved

When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.

You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.

The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life.

I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United States.

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.