I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

We live in ugly times.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

I have no human feelings.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

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.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.