Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

It's a natural law: You receive as much as you give.

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.