Before you complain about the lack of big opportunities in your life, be sure to first seize all the small ones that are already in your presence.

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think.

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.

When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?