Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.

Your life moves to a better place when you move at a sustainable pace

The people you listen to are a preview of the future you.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

Listen more than you talk.

Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.

We've got to build scale. We're going to hire the best people, build the best systems, and find solutions.

Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.

Those who have suffered in the hands of others, know what it is to be free.

Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

I just think it's really important to be yourself and not trying to be something you're not.

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.