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.

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.

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

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.

Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.