I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

First of all my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.