My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.

When you have a chance to forgive, think of all you'll gain and forget all you've lost.

It is very wise to spend some quiet time alone getting to know your true positive self better, far before you start to surround yourself with people.

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.