You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

Every loss of life is terrible.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

I love being in a courtroom.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

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.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Actor’s life is very long.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

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

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.