My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

The more loving, kind and simple we are, the more we resemble the God.

Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

When you learn to love hell you will be in heaven.