A smile is the universal welcome.

Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.

We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.