Everybody wants to be great at something.

One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. D.

I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.

With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

The one thing women love more than money is power.

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

I love Google. I was there for 13 years, and if you told me I'd be as happy anywhere else, I would've probably doubted it. But I am as happy, if not happier, at Yahoo.

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.

The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.