When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

What is wrong with you people?

Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

If I ever have children of my own, they will read Matilda. They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see Matilda: The Musical.

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

It's hard to say what iconically will hit, resonate and stay with people.