Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.

Create your own tomorrows with your thoughts and actions - today.

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

The poorest person is not one without a dollar but one without a dream.

There are always more choices than you think.

Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.

Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal; Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

Dream it. Dare it. Do it.

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves.

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.