Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

People shoot 2D movies and convert them and I never think they're as good. 3D is really a scientific process of laying out shots and picking rotations.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

Practice is practice, chicken is chicken.

Prayerlessness means unavailability to God.