a man the South African government evidently thought too dangerous to be free, but also by then too prominent to be killed. - Sidney Poitier

"Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real."

"I don't mean to be like some old guy from the olden days who says, "I walked thirty miles to school every morning, so you kids should too." That's a statement born of envy and resentment. What I'm saying is something quite different. What I'm saying is that by having very little, I had it good. Children need a sense of pulling their own weight, of contributing to the family in some way, and some sense of the family's interdependence. They take pride in knowing that they're contributing. They learn responsibility and discipline through meaningful work. The values developed within a family that operates on those principles then extend to the society at large. By not being quite so indulged and "protected" from reality by overflowing abundance, children see the bonds that connect them to others."

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more.