when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Love wins, love always wins.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Into the sea I’d love to sink When with both eyes a shark can blinkIs he a brave fish or a marine man?Through those closed eyelids my heart will he scan?

98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed.

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

Insanity is arguing with reality.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

I monitor the food my players eat on a Friday night. It's no good if they've had two vindaloos and a kebab.

The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

The greatest revenge is massive success.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.