There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they have their own reality, we have our own reality.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

I love New York City.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.