I don't want to be an old dad.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

We never get enough of falling in love and believing in love.

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

Each morning needs to start with a good sweat. I'm either working out at home or on set, depending on my call time.

After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.

I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible.

Emma, Emma, Emma, " I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don’t feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

I don't get bitter, I just get better.

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.

I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.

Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love.

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.