Quotes from Hill Harper

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

Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.

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

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.

Part of the problem in today's world is that many men are taught that they have to 'make it' before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership.

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

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

At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.

Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful.

Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?

When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it's amazing.

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?'

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

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.