Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.

Revolution starts within our own heart, not on the street

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud — gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet that wrapped around me like a shroud.

Few men are admired by their servants.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.