Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.

If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous. To me, this is just a job.

Yes, I adore the fact that girls like me.

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

I've always wanted to act.

I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.

Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.

You judge people as you meet them.

I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.

The effectiveness of your life is determined by how much impact you make

The wisdom of that moment of pure emotion resonates with me still: that the dearest and most enduring moments of our lives are sometimes the quietest ones.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.