I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.

At the end of the day, give up your worries and give thanks for the journey.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

I enjoy the quiet life.