I choose solitude over cold kisses. If it isn't love, it is poison.

I've been living in the shadow of empty people for far too long. Now I need to find chests full of wild lilies, minds full of wonder, hearts full of light.

Don't kiss me if you're afraid of thunder. My life is a storm.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

What if, along with our 'to do' list, we had a 'to be' list too?

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.