What I really want is a commercial hit. If youre in a hit, youre suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I'm going to hang in there.

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.