If you don't fall down, you aren't trying hard enough.

Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness.

People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.

An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.

Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!

Indifference is a quarantined difference.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

Most of the European leaders look at themselves as having to follow the United States, because if the US opposes them, there will be a regime change.

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last few years it's gotten more serious.

The American actor is very lucky. Why? Because so little is asked of him.