I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.

If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

Boredom is a disease, too.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.

My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.

I don't see dramatic television because my wife is a political junkie, and we have 12 sets going night and day so she doesn't miss a word walking from room to room.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.