Sidney Poitier

My father was very big on marriage.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.