Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Being broke is only a temporary situation.

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

Every minute this broad spends outside of bed is a waste of time.

I never seen no shootin’. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That’s something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won’t hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I’ve gotta look at it.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

Being poor is a frame of mind.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you’ve got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That’s why you get rhetoric.

That’s the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

People don’t know how hard it is to have your own business.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

I think most people don’t react well to being screamed at. It’s counterproductive.

You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Love hurts more than hate.

I’m in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

People recognize certain things, like ‘D’ means ‘this dialogue stinks.’ We’re dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

I’ve never been poor, only broke.