For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

The love of God is constantly active and present. His love didn't just happen once. It's forever moving in you and in your life.

I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

We're all a little tired.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

If anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail.