Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.

Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any

The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan.

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.