The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things.

No, I am not powerful nor do I wish to be, for it is God using my weakness that makes me potent and I would never wish to surrender that.

Maybe I need to immerse the fabric of my soul in torrential nature of Christmas, and in doing so to finally understand that it is the very thing that can make the world what I so wish it were.

Doing life without God is not doing life.

If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?

Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.

The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else.

To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.

You have great talent for great contribution to humanity.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching." "not catching enough

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.