Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic...

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

Never trust people who've only got one book.

I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

What Texans can dream, Texans can do.

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity.

It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.