I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Leverage on your self-worth and convert it into net worth.

Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.

It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions

When I talk about subtle bodies, causal bodies and things like that, it is a good idea not to take it all completely literally. It cannot be put into words.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.