I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.

The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don't even realize it.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.

You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

There's a direct correlation between positive energy and positive results.

To be almost saved is to be totally lost.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

Evander Holyfield's a great fighter, I watched him when I was a kid, I love the guy, but I had to do what I had to do. It's what I get paid to do.

I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.

To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home

Also,I loathe it when you refer to me as dude" Eric Sinclair to Betsy

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.