One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

God is the designer of the family.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

If a man cries in front of you, it doesn't mean he's weak. It means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down.

I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I ever thought I could see in myself.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.