My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Abraham Lincoln

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Victor Hugo

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Ram Dass

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

Eve Arnold

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Henrik Ibsen

If I have a cup of coffee that is too strong for me because it is too black, I weaken it by pouring cream into it. I integrate it with cream. If I keep pouring enough cream in the coffee, pretty soon the entire flavor of the coffee is changed; the very nature of the coffee is changed. If enough cream is poured in, eventually you don't even know that I had coffee in this cup. This is what happened with the March on Washington. The whites didn't integrate it; they infiltrated it. Whites joined it; they engulfed it; they became so much a part of it, it lost its original flavor. It ceased to be a black march; it ceased to be militant; it ceased to be angry; it ceased to be impatient. In fact, it ceased to be a march.

Malcolm X, Message to the Grass

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

C.S. Lewis

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Samuel Butler