“But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.”

I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.

It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.

We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.

Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.

Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

When I’m playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

If he had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, I can tell you exactly how he did it, what type of shots he made and who he passed to.

You’re going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn’t necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, ‘Could I have done things to prevent this situation?’