Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.

Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks

Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!'I know, I want to tell her. It should have happened to someone really ugly. And then it wouldn't have mattered.

If we open our mind, doors will open without keys.

Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.