Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.

I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

You need to be happy to live, I don't.

I thank the earth and the sky everyday for the opportunities I’ve had.

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

I do something about the weather. I stay home.

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.

You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.