Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

Faith must withstand time. It can’t be a here today and gone tomorrow kind of trust.

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

You only love me when it's convenient for you.

It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

If you can't make freinds with God, make freinds with someone is friends and maybe you'll get invited to the party.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

I would fain die a dry death.

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.