I wrote my will across the sky, in stars

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Some people want to know their future

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

Why do some people fall out of activity . . . for the same reason that they fall out of bed . . . they are not far enough in it.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget.

Business first; pleasure afterwards.