I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

Every morning the sun rises with a golden glow to reveal the ineffable magnificence of life.

She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.

The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.

God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean.

This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.

We become so numb to what we're saying.