The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.

I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it

The present becomes the past instantaneously. Look back by all means but remember that you’re moving forward.

Everything you could ever wish for is just in reach. Work hard and never be afraid to ask for something.

The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed that I am free of disease and horrendous working conditions. Long may it continue.

I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

I knew that Jaye Davidson would not last because of that. I really liked him and thought he had incredible screen presence and talent, but I knew that he would not stay in that profession.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.