We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

I guess, the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life are deaths of people close to me.

I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.