I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

There is no pain but to genuinely hurt a friend.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.