Cause if you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay.

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.

Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it.

There is heat in freezing...be a testament!

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory.

Dream! Dream! And then go for it!

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's no other way.

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

Passion is listening.

Be all you can be and live a good life, have fun with it.