I'm not weeping for what I've lost ... I'm just grateful to the Lord, grateful that he gave me so much. ... Praise the Almighty God for what he gave me, for such love and such joy.

I know it's beyond what you can bear, child. You must not try to carry this alone.

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.

I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

I don't have a dis-ability, I have a different-ability.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.