The dearest things I know are what you are.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

I'm afraid that if we move on to such topics, I won't be able to let you go safe and sound.

Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.