Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.

I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day.

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

Believe it or not, there are interesting elements in everyone. So, if I can't talk to everybody for at least 7 to 10 minutes, then I'm in the wrong profession.

Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand.

George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"

Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.

The world only knows those that have the word in them

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

You find your strengths and play them up.

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.

Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.