I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

I never met a lasagna I didn't like

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

When all else fails, look cute.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots of problems are ignored.

I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.