The artist as citizen is here to stay.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Your outer charm and beauty attract me. Your inner beauty of kindness and a caring heart seduces me.

Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer’s dream.

The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Integrity reveals beauty.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

I grabbed a pair of glowing red legs.

Lie to me. she whispered. I love you. he said.