I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.

The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.

Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

When women go wrong men go right after them.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. Tap into it.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.

You know you live in Phoenix when the cold-water faucet is hotter than the hot-water faucet.

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

The flow of spiritual connectedness and oneness with life will dwell in you if your heart and mind is open and innocent.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

I don't want to be the biggest superstar. I want to be good at my job, and I want my work to go down in posterity. I am working for the longevity of my career.

If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.

I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I really miss a lot of my friends out there.