A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

"I take responsibility for the times I was arrested and the things that I did. Me being 33 now, I look back on those times and I wish that a lot of things I didn't do. I wish I could have back because I see how much I influence people. People wanna follow in my footsteps and I wish that I can now do more positive things, and that back then I'd done more positive things."

"I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive."

"As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself."

"Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement."

"Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field."

"You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen."

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

"Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself."

"You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger."

"A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at."

"If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself."

"Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong."

"I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces."

"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me"

"Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety."

"Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music."

"It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you."

"To fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs."

"Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it."

"Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else."