When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

It wasn’t worth it, but at the time it was. And that’s all that mattered.

Make requests, not demands. "Please" kill that zombie, honey, I'm out of bullets.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Cats will outsmart dogs every time.

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.