Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don’t convert it to anything is up to you. The life will keep on reducing and diminishing.

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

The devil won't stay where there is music.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.