I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Racism is real in this country.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I don’t just listen to rap.

Game’s always been open arms with me.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.