I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it’s very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

I’ve got a great sense of humor.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I’m a visceral guy.

You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man’s jaw with his fist.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

I am a tough guy.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We’re small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We’re not a pushover.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.