There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

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

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

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.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

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

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

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.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

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.

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.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

I am what I am. A fighter.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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‘.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

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.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.

I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.

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

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

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

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

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.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

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.

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.

A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it’s kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the ’60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.