All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.

Heaven would never be heaven without you.

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

Let this hell be our heaven.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Painting completed my life.

I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.