Don’t ever worry what the boys who don’t appreciate originality think of you. They’re fools.

We were all survivors—every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death’s cold face.

To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.

Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

I think Elvis is the sexiest man to ever walk the earth, I love him.

Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.