Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."

It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.

The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.

In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world

The struggle to keep aroused emotions within proper boundaries is won by putting a conscious leash on them and leading them like junkyard dogs right to the throne of grace

A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible.

I don't aim to be the most important person in the world. I strive to constantly do my best, so as to manifest the best in me.

Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

Who are you and why are you my cat?

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.