People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, because my backpack has every kind of medicine in it.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

You have to always keep conditioning. My coach used to say, "You play like you practice." If you practice s - -ty, you're going to play s - -ty.

I'm not leaving America because it doesn't support me.

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.

You can’t inspire and lead people without earning their attention. You achieve that in a counter-intuitive way – by paying close attention to what interests them.

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

Life is science.

I am grateful to the Lord for granting me just what I needed.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.