Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.

Fashion is an extension of your personality, and I've always been obsessed. I always want to have something different than everybody else.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

I am a tropical black man.

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.