An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.