You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.

You really don't want to be his/her first love. They need to have first fallen in love with Jesus.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.