I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
Date of birth: 1878-02-08
Date of death: 1965-06-13
Quotes number: 13
Nationality: German
Profession: Philosopher
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.
My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.
There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.