You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge.

Sometimes adversity becomes the fuel in which we run on.

Money Can’t Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty.

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.