Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

You can’t live outside the manual of your manufacturer and perform the function He created you for. God’s word is His manual

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Criminals have means motive and opportunity – Heros do too

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.