May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence.

To know aberrations is to become involved with them.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.