Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation.

Particularly in television, we can stereotype ourselves. You realize that we all have a lot of voices in our head. We have angry voices, we have voices of doubt, and we have moments of strength.

I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own.

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

I think most actors go into the business thinking, 'I can play everything. Why can't I play a black woman? Just give me a chance.' Then you grow up and realize it's probably better that they cast an actual black woman.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

Yoga is an art and science of living.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.