"The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music."

"Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child."

"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved."

"I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."

"The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow."

"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."