That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

You have to go through the spiritual fires to know the strength of your faith.

Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness.

Just smile, breath, and give thanks (and there is always a reason to), because it beats the hell out of the alternative.

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.

Allah gave the Qur'an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.

You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.