So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

To be somebody you must last.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.

Never give up. And never under any circumstances face the facts.

In our family we dont divorce our men we bury them.

Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.

You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

If I want to look half decent, a blow dry is a godsend. I'm crap at doing my own hair.

I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

I am healthy.

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.

If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'

The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.