I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.