There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory.

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

Generally speaking, I try not to generalize.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

I don't think that any great issue ever gets resolved. I think we outgrow them.

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

Im an expert on surfing the channels, so Im always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.