Even when you're out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own.

I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?'

No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that.

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult.

I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with.

Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.