Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.

You can't lie a lifetime, son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.