I don't know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren’t flawless and chances are they are not going to be able to fully identify with a character who is.

Your face expresses a simple majesty, your look is that of a captive princess.

I am black. What are you going to do about it?

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.

I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

Content alone is propaganda; form alone is wallpaper.

Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.