But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets hurt.

I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.