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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.

If you grind long enough you will quickly learn that generating reoccurring long-term wealth is not the problem or big headache you face rather the big headaches come from coming up with new places to put your money as the more money your money printing machine makes the more headaches you have each day to tend to

Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go straight for the solo.

I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way we've all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there's only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That's as damaging as anything else.

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

We were always just a hardcore band that came out and said what we believed in, but we also talked about the streets and the stuff that we were into and the struggles and everything we were going through. Once people found out we were Christian, it was always, 'Is that Christian music?'

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

How weightless words are when nothing will do.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

People don't mind you feeling low if you are still performing. But if you've shared too much, and suddenly your performance dips, that's when they start doubting you.

The first time is always the hardest

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.