Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Close your eyes to feel deeply the tranquility and serenity of the mind.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development'.

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.

What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

You can't be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it's my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.