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.

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.

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.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

A journey is measured in friends, not miles.