Everybody wants to collaborate with me. I was going to collaborate with Whitney Houston, but she died. Very sad, man. We were very good friends.

I'm not going to die. If I'm going to die, it won't be now. So, I'm not going to limit myself. I will keep on going while I have the strength.

The people always support me. If they come to see my show, they never forget me. They are very proud of me.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.

To know your soul is your own, that's what counts.

and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.