"The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time"

“I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.”

“An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.”

“As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.”

Source : "Eight Men Out", www.connectsavannah.com. 1988.

“I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.”

“Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.”

“bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it ...”

“Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families would not survive without two incomes, partly because they are not at all sure their marriages will last. The day of the husband as permanent meal-ticket is over, a fact most women recognize, however they feel about "women's liberation.”