There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

Why spend our time searching to feel reality, when it’s the times that don’t feel real that we remember forever?

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift.

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.

A lot of ppl are making more money than they ever had nowadays - so when they get their flat they can, they always find themselves with an extra room.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.