If you understand, things are just as they are... If you do not understand, things are just as they are...

The moment you stop being humble is the moment you stop learning.

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.