All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

Same with the Coen brothers and Warren [Beatty]. And then slowly you get to know each one of them as a person, and that becomes a kind of separate entity, where you just know the human being.

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.