There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

I am on the divorce detox diet. I only eat younger men

Good memories invite heaven.

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

I like to play women who blaze trails.

I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.