Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!

The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.