It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!

You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place.

Everything in life is a metaphor for everything in life." Bonnie Marlewski-Probert

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.