Don't tell me what to do - you have eight numbers after your name just like me.

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve.

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

Groom yourself and your life like a shrub. Trim off the edges and you'll be stronger in the broken places. Embrace the new growth and blossom at the tips.

There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.