You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path.

It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when you have problems.

You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.

So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

Writing is still on my slate.

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

I would take it to heart if people were mad about something my character did.

As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.

Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight.

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?