God answered the prayers of animals.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

To win, don’t compete. To love, don’t complain. To be kind, don’t judge.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

All these Lil' rappers, I'm just kind of getting real irritated by it. I said, 'You know what? Drop the Lil'. Forget it. I'm Bow Wow.'

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

This is my world. You step into my world, you will step out a loser - I guarantee it.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.

I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.