Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.

I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.

Change your thoughts... charge your life.