For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

Tomorrow will be better.”“But what if it’s not?” I asked.“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.

Every day is a gift. That said, I've gotten some pretty shitty gifts over the years.

All communication begins with an intention, and your intention determines the quality of your life.

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

You can't kill the truth.

François: Do you know what kind of a bomb it was? Clouseau: Yes, the exploding kind.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.