Sometimes you need to let go of everything – cleanse yourself. If you’re unhappy with something… whatever it is that’s dragging you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self, comes out.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
The early bird catches the worm. The early worm gets eaten.
We may hold different points of view but it is in times of stress and difficulty that we most need to remember that we have much more in common than there is dividing us.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
They say it’s the white man I should fear, but it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.
If you can not join them, beat them.
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times…I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend – without a song.’ So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
My biggest beauty secret is to be happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I think a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the secret of beauty.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted? I do.
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
Of course, I have nothing against the language changing, but there must be reasonableness in it, so that it does not become a mere gas can. On the other hand, new words are sometimes added that I wouldn’t do without – for example, “smug”. It’s my new favorite word. It’s a wonderfully oily word, a precise word that covers a certain type of person with a high degree of self-confidence in their own abilities.
If we think that the way we live is good enough, then we’re completely wrong. You have to be able to doubt so that you can see that it can be done differently.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.