Don’t just exist

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.

I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Get deep with me. Set your thoughts free.

When we raise one hand to say "bye-bye" we are gesturing that we are going apart from each other, whereas when we join our palms and bow our head, our hearts become closer.

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

Do you really miss anything that was worth watching at the MTV Awards?