The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

You cannot be spiritually free and financially bound.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

If you'll do now what other people won't, you'll do later what other people can't.

It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.

When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.

Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

Always be ready to give a good testimony for the Lord, but remember that the best testimony a Christian can have is a love for others and good work habits.

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.

Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes.

Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with.

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

We should not confuse information with knowledge.