He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.