If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Housework can kill you if done right.

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

I bring up God alot in my show, know why? Because I miss him.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.

Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.