If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

The time to change was yesterday; the time to wake up is now.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.

If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.