if the hurt comes so will the happiness

what drives you crazy what keeps you up at night

you must understand the difference between want and need you may want that boy but you certainly don't need him

you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else

do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you

if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

to be soft is to be powerful

accept yourself as you were designed

other women's bodies are not our battlegrounds

i have what i have and i am happy i've lost what i've lost and i am still happy

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you

you are your own soul mate

some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest

if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else

you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first

Nature hates calculators.

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

When we feel too drained to move forward God is right there with us ready to tenderly revive and restore us.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

The gospel of Jesus Christ opens the path to what we may become.

I'm not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it's just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that's it. But once rap stops, it's hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It's a whole 'nother beast that people think they're ready for, but they're really not.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

The only way you’re going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

This is like being in the super bowl. It's first down, you're on the one yard line, You either make a touchdown or you're hosed.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.

I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of potential which we plan to tap into.