I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

If heaven was created only for the most stupid clown, then Mr Bean could have been the only righteous man on earth.

She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.