The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.

We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.

I have got good films, and I am thankful to Aditya Chopra. He put a lot of faith in me.

If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward.

God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.

Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.