It's so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

When you do something beautiful and nobody notice, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.

Education without values as useful as it is seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

What people really want is fairness. They want people paying their fair share of taxes.

I genuinely do think that skin does have a lot to do with genetics. I was blessed. You should see my mom and grandma - it's unfair!

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

Fashion is a tool to compete in life outside the home. People like you better without knowing why because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.

I use acting to get away from myself and to live in someone else's skin, and I do singing to get inside my own skin. I need them both for my emotional health.

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.