My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Things in Arizona don’t just die

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

I don't have to be nice to people who are causing great damage to the nation.

For the future. For the unborn.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor.

Traveling renews you.

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.