If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

The soul's joys are greater than the heart's pleasures.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas.

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

Don't set your wit against a child.

They portray me as all these crazy things and I'm so not like that. I don't have entourages, I'm as normal as you can get in this lifestyle.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.