To live a fulfilling life, we must combine passion with compassion and strength without strife; we must get out of our comfort zone and into our strength zone; and we must work every day with discipline to ensure that our daily agenda reflects our values, our priorities, and the legacy we wish to leave for others.

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab.

Stopping an army, isn't that something you try 300 times before you do it?