“I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.”

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.

Everybody loved ‘The A-Team’ because it was entertainment, pure and simple.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I’d played golf I would have been skint.

It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.