I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.