The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

Anything you can imagine, you can create.

lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.

What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.