It's a hard loss when you lose by one point.

My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Your life is defined by how you spend your time and what you choose to do daily, so a life of passion is not an act but a habit.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.

All my films are love stories.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.