- You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

Sufre mas el que espera siempreque aquel que nunca espero a nadie?Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.