"Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal."

“I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.”

“Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?”

“I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.”

Source : "Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. December 14, 2012.

“I saved Latin. What did you ever do?”

“Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.”

“It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.”

“Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.”

“The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (1930). “History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom”, p.266, Library of Alexandria