When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Around the lunch table everyone seems to have given something up---dairy, meat, gluten, sugar, carbs. Only in a land of plenty could people voluntarily go without so much.

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

With failure, you just try again.

There is something of the warrior in me.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

He who gives money gives some, he who gives time gives more, and he who gives of himself gives all.