You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?’ Archer asked. ‘Because that’s what you very nearly did.

To strive to seek to find and not to yield.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

All the world's not a stage.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.