When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

The tree is known by his fruit.

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

I think it was a lot of trust as well [between me and Daniel Radcliffe]. If we didn't have that, it could be a very painful film [ Swiss Army Man] to go make.

My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about.

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

If all would lead their lives in love like me, Then bloody swords and armor should not be; No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move, Unless alarm came from the camp of love.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

I just love going down into the crowd and getting people pumped up and dancing.