“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.”

“There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

“You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.”

“No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.”

“[N]o matter where you stand, no matter how much popularity you have, no matter how much education you have, no matter how much money you have, you have it because somebody in this universe helped you to get it. And when you see that, you can’t be arrogant, you can’t be supercilious. You discover that you have your position because of the events of history and because of individuals in the background making it possible for you to stand there.”

“No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life”

“But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.”

“At the end of the day, don’t forget that you are a person, don’t forget you are a mother, don’t forget you are a wife, don’t forget you are a daughter. Because in the end, no matter how much money you make and how much success you create, What you are left is family, friends and faith.”

“No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in America is tough.”

“A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again.
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