Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

Communication creates collaboration. Big ears are better than big egos. When you’re not listening, ask good questions.

Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

I own now, I think about 38 pairs of cowboy boots, or 37, something like that now.