Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.