I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

Someone said that once a family producers a writer, that's the end of the family.

But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.

Everything is possible. You once told me not too long ago we should always have hope and I do.

If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that.

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'