My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Oscar Wilde

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Viscott

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

Henry Cisneros

It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless blood-shed and has been found at the root of innumerable acts of evil. The argument continues today, as to which religion the true god belongs, when what would be most healing and empowering is to free god from the shackles of religious limitation and judgment. It is by emancipating god from the ignorance of our ancestors that we become empowered to explore and express our own relationship with what god may or may not be.

Steve Maraboli

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy

Thomas Carlyle

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

John Calvin

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Shania Twain

You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.

Megan McCafferty

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

Ernest Hemingway

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

Tia Mowry

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

John Rawls

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.

Francis Bacon, Of Discourse