I am honored to be one of this year's Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival's 20th anniversary, joining my friend David Oyelowo. I have always had a special relationship with Urbanworld, back to my days as a festival publicist to previewing my earlier films and now as an ambassador.

As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.