Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Smiles are very contagious so infect everyone with your smiles.

My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.

A happy moment can last a lifetime if you remember to smile when you think of it.

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

You can't fail if you don't quit. You can't succeed if you don't start.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.