At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Happiness is.. looking at the closing door, then bolting them from outside and fleeing.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

I don't date civilians. I don't even try. I'm totally out of the game of dating or trying to get a girlfriend or anything like that.

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

I will be the first black James Bond.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

Say it over and over until you believe it, and only then shall you become it.

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.