“I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.”

I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul.

I get up every morning and say, ‘Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely.

To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.