I just don't like to settle. Good enough is never good enough.

Your business needs a raison d'être. Be prepared to work 24 hours a day, and be willing to take risks. And you have to love it or you won't succeed.

Even having saved the world doesn't make me feel good about myself. Perhaps it's something you get habituated to

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.

In times of weakness, choose to put yourself under God's control.

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.