A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The French complain of everything, and always.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.