You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.

The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature.

Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that. Malcolm wanted to inspire other people to find their own strength.

Anyone who can see will see you beautiful.

People make mistakes. They look at the surface of things and see what they want to.

If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters.

Patriotism, that least discerning of pas

Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.

My dog watches me on TV. So, if I may take this opportunity, "No! No! No!"

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo.

There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.