You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.

Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

The most beautiful jewelry in the world is not a diamond necklace, but two hearts beating as one.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

The voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are the hands of Esau.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.