Call your destiny. Put in your work. Manifest your blessings.

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.

Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.

You can either be a con or a man—you can’t be both.

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.