"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

“Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6 percent above the inflation rate. For a buy-and -hold investor, commissions and taxes are small.”

“Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.”

Source : "The Franchise Affair".

“My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.”

“I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.”

“As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.”

“What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.”

Source : "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World". Book by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger (p. 57), 1999.

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

Source : "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.

“I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Feb 12, 2014