There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.