Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and serenity, and benefits others as well.

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.

If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.

One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

I feel for today's leaders. I really do. They got to where they are by doing a series of jobs exceptionally well. And that doesn't help them at all with the challenges they now face.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.