Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that.

What separates us is that we expect to be great.

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

I want to be a pretty corpse.

It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.