Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

Saturday is a day for the spa. RELAX, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too.

It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

True repentance always involves reform.

The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.