When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you like what you do, you will succeed.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
Der er kun én succes – at kunne tilbringe dit liv på din egen måde.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all
I had to go through so horribly much before I found out to skip where the fence is lowest.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
I have no vices only desires.
They say it’s the white man I should fear, but it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.
I’m attracted to myths.
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.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
You are only as happy as your least happy child-
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?