When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.

Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.

I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Learn not to be intimidated by important people.

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.