The voice of the heart is much stronger than all the other sounds and words spoken without feelings

Hate when hate acquaints the burns, Love when love heals it!

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

I remember when you could get a good, virgin meal for half the price.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as "Aquarius" meant to me, as a person and a citizen.