I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

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.

Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort.

The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woodsIn sorrow, sorrow.Your hand, where is your

Some donkeys have amazing luck.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.

The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.

Thunder only happens when it's raining.