I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

Lend only what you can afford to lose.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

I can connect anything to anything.

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms