Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

The tricky part about discovering our giftedness is that it may be in an area that feels unexpected.

The voice sank through luce's skin and straight into her heart. Daniel's voice. He was calling to her. He wanted her. Needed her. Luce moved towards the sound

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I’m humbled that you chose me.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

You can't grow strong without resistance.