I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.