But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

It's better to be happy and comfortable than well dressed.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually