The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy the frustrated guy the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

I wanted to make a living but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them what good do they do?

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people and you too don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools bring down crime build affordable housing clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.