I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

I’m half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That’s why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I’ve seen so many.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I never have really become accustomed to the ‚John.‘ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – John Wayne.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.