Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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.

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste.

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.