A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Pulped in his crushing strength, his hug is enough to smear me over his body like war paint.
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.
I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil...
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
