You're the one person whose opinion I care about. When I'm with you, the past dissappears, and I'm a better person.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'