Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

Do not trust and depend on someone as a godfather but accept God the father of all fathers.

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.