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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.