End Quotes

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.

Self-creation never ends. You are continually creating yourself from the field of infinite possibilities. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is everyone else.

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.

The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

At the end of the day nobody’s perfect and everybody’s weird whether they embrace it or not.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.