It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

We were all created differently, each with his/her calling and purpose

His gaze drops to my lips. "I shouldn't do this--""You really should." And I close the distance between us.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.'

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.

Flappers sounds like where waitresses go after they're too old to work at Hooters.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.