There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium.

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

If youve got a big mouth and youre controversial youre going to get attention.

Where Gods grace takes you grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you.

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

The death of a parent is rarely expected and never accepted.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, 'Wow, I want to be like that.'

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

The more candles on my cake, the more exercise I get blowing them out.

You know, sometimes you fall in love and you get treated badly, sometimes you get treated well.

I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable but politically dangerous.

I have never considered any player as my competitor; each one of them is good and talented, and my job is to beat them.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity.

You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.

The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.

I think we've got three that we have to play, and that would be 'Surrender,' 'Dream Police' and 'I Want You to Want Me.'

Genre pleasures are many, but the quality of shared values within an ongoing discussion may be the most powerful, enlisting lifelong devotion in its fans.

I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'