The quality of life is determined by its activities.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

We can accomplish a lot with prayer and fasting.

Justice is useful when money is useless.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.