Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

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.

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.