If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.