Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

I will never want for more. You are my totality.

Don't depend on anyone else to toot your horn. I mean, do you really want their lips on it, anyway?

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.