Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.