But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

We never get enough of falling in love and believing in love.

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

Each morning needs to start with a good sweat. I'm either working out at home or on set, depending on my call time.

After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.

I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. -Frodo Baggins

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.