That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

The word book acted as a transient stimulus

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.

A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.