Quotes from Hill Harper

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.

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.

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.

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?

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've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.