I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state that makes you try to convince your heart of something your mind knows is a lie!

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

In London, it's hard for me to wear anything more colorful than black. When I'm in Rome, I dress up in white. When I'm in Paris, I became a Parisian. Striped T-shirt, Chanel. It's funny!

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.