Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

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.

the heart knows nothing except its own mind

You say that you don’t care about age and that you’re ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.