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

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

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

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.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

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

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. 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.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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

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

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.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

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

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

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.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

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.

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

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

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

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

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

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

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

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

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