Every accepted public quote

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

“I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.”

“We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.”

“The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance...”

“They will only care when you're gone.”

“The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.”

“When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.”

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”

“My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.”

“Any type of violence is against God, against religion, against spirituality, against humanity, and against nature. Maturity comes only through non-violence, love, and all-inclusiveness.”

“..time is always the price we pay for the unlived life.”

“I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.”

“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”

“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes? I kno...”

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”

“No one here gets out alive.”

“I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.”

“With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.”

“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?”

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.”

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”

“Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it t...”

“I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J. Blige can come...”

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right”

“If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more”

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

“I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.”

“We're going to find time for happiness. Because how can we stand against tyranny if we ourselves are filled with hate?”

“I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have...”

“If a man has money, it is usually a sign too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.”

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”

“He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!”

“History is written by the victors.”

“There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen ou...”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

“I'm all the way hands-on when it comes to my videos.”

“As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, an...”

“The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.”

“Dare to be naive.”

“In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.”

“I'm a trained engineer, so I'm conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes to art, there is no definite answer because it's so subjective.”

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

“Believe in yourself when nobody else does.”

“You are wrong if you consider success as a goal, because there is no definite benchmark for success. The process that we have to go through is what counts. How we are able to overcome all ob...”

“Sometimes you must reach beyond yourself to reach yourself within.. yourself.”

“Fear breeds fear.”