... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.

We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

When I approach villains, unless it's a drama, I'm a comedian, so I approach most things from a comedic point of view.

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.