Quotes from Steve Harvey

I pay attention to every minute of the day.

You've got to be vulnerable when you're talking to kids. There's nothing worse than some adult standing up there just talking down to some kid. You can't work that way.

I sit my three sons down and say, 'Listen to me. When the police stop you, immediately comply. Don't walk away, don't smart-mouth; get your hands up and get down on the ground.' If you're not black, you might not have to have that conversation, but I go over and over it with them because I don't want that phone call.

I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them.

I take my brand very seriously.

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

You think that God positioned you here so you can just have it all to yourself? God blesses you to become a blessing. That's the deal.

Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!

I'm not a good mother at all.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.

I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man.

If you cook something on the show, and I don't like it, I'm going to tell you. I don't understand how you could watch any of these morning shows, and everything everybody cooks is absolutely delicious. Are you kidding me, man?

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

Sometimes we don't appreciate Prayer until we have to go through something!

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.