“The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don’t even realize it.”

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

People love to see people fall.

Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

There’s a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.

That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

The key to happiness doesn’t lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel and the way they make us feel.

So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.

Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that’s why everybody loved him so much.

Once you understand what excellence is all about, you see how excellence manifest itself in any discipline.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

Have you ever talked to someone, and you’re not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

People for the most part can smell lies.

I’ve been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there’s ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that’s a huge gift.

One of the most fascinating lessons I’ve absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

Life is about the pursuit of excellence. That pursuit is probably more exciting to me now more than ever.

We have to start treating each other as if we are treating ourselves living another life.

It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.

You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Don’t you hate it when, your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)