I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.
Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.
My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.
I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.
Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
