It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Love wins, love always wins.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from

Our people must once again realize that it is only hard work and excellence that leads to wealth creation.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

Ndamukong Suh is the best player in this generation to hit free agency since Reggie White.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.