Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

We don't have to accept the things we might change.

Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.

I walked in and saw you dancing. I haven't caught my breath since.

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.

I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it.

There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.