Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.