I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

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

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

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.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

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.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

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

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I’m trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, ‚I’m different. I’m not just a comedian.‘ I’m trying to become a rock star.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.