Men will bear many things from a kept mistress which they would not bear from a wife.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you do so to them.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state and all men of our time are in such a state.

Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words mine and thine were taken away.

If all men knew what others say of them there would not be four friends in the world.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty not like going to the zoo but to take action to open their hearts and their consciences.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual because that means they also sleep with men and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

If we became students of Malcolm X we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now or the alcoholism.